Driveway garden design - tiny garden in the middle of the driveway!

After the solid driveway of this Palo Alto property was replaced with twin ribbons of concrete, landscape architect Jeni Webber planted the new median strip with low-growing echeverias, dwarf daffodils, sedums, and creeping thyme that cars can still drive over (a garage lies at the rear). More: How to garden anywhere Then she created a pretty fringe on both sides, filling a bed beside the house with ceanothus, coffeeberry, daylilies, and other perennials, and planting alpine strawberries and espaliered apples and pears along the fence. “Instead of a boring, bland space, [the driveway] now has life,” Webber says

Window Box Herb Garden.- maybe outside kitchen window

Growing Herbs in Window Boxes. For outside kitchen window

kitchen herb windowbox (since the cat took over the window box I have not planted anything in it, but I used to reach out my kitchen window for fresh herbs--maybe I can let the cat have half, or a quarter, of the box and I have the rest!)

'Drunken Botanist' explores DIY cocktails

How to Grow Your Own Cocktail Garden - by Amy Stewart (The Drunken Botanist)

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Gardening Solutions from Portland Nursery - Brochures on everything from Native Plants to Annuals & Perennials, from Roses to Vegetables & Herbs... Print out whatever you need. - NOTE: The brochures are in PDF file format. To view a PDF file, you will need Acrobat Reader.

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Metal Garden Beds. 100% Recyclable Galvanized Steel Material - No More Wood Rot. Unique Garden Beds You'll Love. ~ Seems like these metal planting beds would give cold climate gardeners an extended growing season by warming up the soil... May be a down side in hot climates.

It's early in the year for cold weather, but it's a perfect time to start protecting your plants for the coming winter. Here are a few things you can do to protect your garden in winter weather: portlandnursery.c...

Who doesn't like to snuggle up with a great read after a long day in the garden? The Drunken Botanist: The Plants That Create the World's Great Drinks by Amy Stewart is a great read after a long day of pulling weeds.

Organic Weed Controls ~ Vinegar as an Herbicide - Simply place some undiluted household vinegar in a mister/sprayer bottle and spritz weeds to saturate their leaves. Usually within 6 to 48 hours the plant growth will wither and die. Young seedlings less than two weeks old will be killed entirely, older weeds will have their top-growth killed but may still resprout from the roots.

Why Hire Landscapers When Goats Can Chow Down? - Goats are becoming America's newest public employees. - Goats make the perfect landscapers: They work for cheap, they don’t need to take lunch breaks, and they provide built-in fertilizer as they go.

DIY Self Watering Planter: This easy #DIY project allows you to go 1 to 2 weeks without watering your plants. With inexpensive materials you can get any at any hardware store, this planter turns any black thumb to bright green! Here's how: http://livewelln.co/1pFedzj

Questions and Answers About Cob - Unlike adobe, cob can be built in cool damp climates like the Pacific Northwest: its resistance to rain and cold makes cob well suited in all but the coldest parts of America.